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Books have always been living things to me. Some of my encounters with new authors have changed my life a little. When I have been perplexed, looking for something I could not define to myself, a certain book has turned up, approached me as a friend would. And between it's cover carried the questions and the answers I was looking for.

Liv Ullmann

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Liv Ullmann
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: December 16
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